If that clip making the rounds of this panelist being on BBC live but via video call, then exploding with a few expletives when someone in the household walks in is true, then there's a problem here that needs analysis, especially now during this reflective Covid19 time.

{Mind you, it might be fake, or from a different era pre-Covid, but this will still remain a relevant commentary}.

Two things:

1. Performance and Ritual - because everything we do in life is about performance and ritual.
2. Capitalism - because this is the environment that has shaped our performance and ritual.

On that clip, I was struck by the man's performance - the turning around, shouting in anger at the teen-looking chap who had walked in, the expressing of his displeasure using words that sounded a lot like "fuck", "fucking" and "twat", the turning back calm-faced to the camera.

The performance of anger and annoyance was clear, and meant for the watching public first and foremost - to say, sorry, I take this "work" seriously, I will not tolerate being interrupted as I work, I will shut down any interruptions quickly and get back to you, my audience.

{Let's not even discuss the gendered ways of this performance - if it was a woman shouting fuck, twat on camera, the backlash would have been louder, swifter, with many calling for her to be fired and child taken away. But that's a thread for another day}

Capitalism has made us very sterile "workers", forcing us to contort ourselves into bland work machines that must not be "interrupted" by the normalsies of life - children, partners, spouses, illness, bad days, etc.
Hence the impatience and irritation, mostly real, sometimes

perceived, when we bring these things up at the workplace. People have been fired or cautioned for missing a work day to cater to a sick child, a pregnant partner, personal ill-health, having a mentally challenging season, etc. Your DM leaves, and you start sweating because the

boss will not understand, and you have deadlines and targets, and everything starts to fall apart.
You get pregnant, and the first thing is to start calculating how you will maneuver and juggle a looming baby and career.
Your spouse gets cancer and you worry how you'll manage

taking care of them, while keeping your reports, your work targets and deliverables flowing like you have no problems.
{Let's not even go to the gendered ways in which these dilemmas present themselves}.
Capitalism has made us very toxic and intolerant of LIFE, which we all have

Which brings us to the performance. It compels us to demonstrate solidarity with it, an acquiescence, a toxic collaboration with it, by denying the things that make us human. But in the WFH era, that becomes more ridiculous, because that collaboration invades the very homes in

which we "hide" our humanity.
Surely, if the office invades my home for whatever reason, then it is sure to find my child(ren), partner, pet(s), pajamas, ad infinitum?
Surely, this is to be expected?
So why does this impatience and toxicity invade the home with our acceptance?

That response, to me, was over the top. It was toxic. It was unnecessary, and it was hurtful to {what I will conclude is the man's} son. The name-calling and shouting are total lack of self-awareness.
On a larger level, that performance was an apology to capitalism, never mind

that capitalism is the invader here.
We really need to evaluate some of these trends.
If you're going to ask me to a Zoom call in my house, please don't get offended if you see my child passing in the background. My child is at HOME. Especially during social-distancing, they

most likely have nowhere else to go. Children and pets and partners passing in the background cannot be a problem when it is the work that has brought itself home.
Most importantly, we must start to interrogate our collaboration with the oppressiveness of capitalism.

We must stop apologizing for our lives, and we must stop getting irritated when we witness other's lives.
I particularly love how the host of the show smiled and started to say "oh, it looks like we have a visitor there..." only for the man to start shouting with irritation.

I am working from home. If you ask me on a Zoom call, be prepared for me to on occasion speak to a passing child etc, even when you assume what they are asking is irrelevant and annoying to you. Hell, we're in a global pandemic. I can't take the call on the roof.

Let's not injure our children, small or grown, with such outbursts just because we need to apologise for having them. They require no apology.
And if they cross the line, a simple "can we do this later" is shorter, more applicable, than fuck and twat, yes?

For your reference, see the link here - found it.